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Alicia Markova, British ballerina known for 'Giselle' OBITUARY
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International Herald Tribune
12-04-2004
Alicia Markova, one of the greatest British ballerinas of the 20th century, co-founder of the company now known as the English National Ballet and a former director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York, died Thursday in Bath, England, the English National Ballet announced. She was 94. Famous for her delicacy, Markova was indelibly associated with ''Giselle,'' the supreme example of 19th-century balletic Romanticism. It was...
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